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Question: In your household, who does the household cleaning?
Choices: "Always me" "Usually me" "About equal or both together" "Usually my spouse/ partner" "Always my spouse/ partner" "Is done by a third person"
Data: % of "About equal or both together"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden38.0%
2 Finland37.4%
3 United States35.7%
4 Denmark33.7%
5 Slovenia31.4%
6 Hungary30.6%
7 Poland30.1%
8 United Kingdom29.8%
9 France28.9%
9 Norway28.9%
11 New Zealand26.8%
12 Germany25.9%
13 Ireland25.4%
14 Austria25.3%
15 Slovakia25.2%
16 Switzerland23.9%
17 Chile23.7%
18 Netherlands23.3%
19 Belgium22.6%
19 Spain22.6%
21 Czech Republic22.0%
22 Latvia21.4%
23 Israel19.6%
24 Australia19.5%
25 Mexico15.6%
26 Portugal14.7%
27 Japan 14.1%

Note
The question is asked to those who live with their spouse/ partner. Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 3.244573 X +5.952
Correlation coefficient (r)0.443
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.196

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 112894.257405 X +17826.558
Correlation coefficient (r)0.277
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 3.130986 X +79.293
Correlation coefficient (r)0.054
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.429827 X +1.746
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 15.806863 X +5.911
Correlation coefficient (r)0.350
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122